Historical category: 104939 books

**An Irish historical murder mystery of love, revenge and redemption, perfect for fans of Murder in an Irish Village by Carlene O’Connor and The Irish Inheritance by M.J Lee. It's August in the long, hot summer of 1995 and Jo Devereux can't believe that she still hasn't returned home to San...

A sprawling novel focuses on the burgeoning revolution in 19th-century     Texas.  …a substantial piece of thoughtful historical fiction.                         —Kirkus Reviews ________________________ In the Texas Revolution of 1836, fighters and those fleeing...

This historical novel is set in post-WWII Japan. The Allied Occupation of Japan was more than an amazing military operation: it also created one of the most singular civilizations of modern history. It was made up of some of America's best minds and some of its worst, of some genuine idealists...

In 1878, barely a dozen years after the American Civil War, this origin story of The Joe Phenix Detective Series was published as a serial in the New York Saturday Journal. This is Historical Fiction written when it was simply...Fiction! These are very early stories about a two-fisted detective tracking...

"A masterful story of love, understanding, trust, respect and loyalty in a blending of two cultural worlds." ~Sharon Thomas, eBook Discovery Reviewer --Shawnee Community Offers Home to Daughter of Wealthy Maryland Planter in the Early American Historical Romance Defiant Love by Judith...

Jerome Charyn’s “daring” and “memorable” (The New Yorker) historical novel renders the inner life of our sixteenth president like never before. This unforgettable portrait of Abraham Lincoln and the Civil War effortlessly mixes humor with Shakespearean-like tragedy to create an achingly...

A man in love is a man afraid. Paris, 1911. André du Monde, director of a famous horror theater, has married a young girl from the country. As a child, André experienced something terrible. Now he can't be intimate with anyone except by frightening them.  His wife is frightened...

As the book opens, Amy Robsart has left her family home and has secretly married Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. Amy's father, Sir Hugh and the man her father intended her to marry, Edmund Tressilian, have no knowledge of Amy's whereabouts and suspect foul play at the hands of Dudley's sneaky master...

Silver IPPY Award for Best Adult Fiction EBook Finalist for the 2014 National Indie Excellence Award Shortlisted for the da Vinci Eye Prize Category finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award From the author of *Made in Italy *comes a tale of artisanal tradition and family bonds set in one of the...

The first two books in The Irish Trilogy by Orna Ross, a historical murder mystery series of love, revenge and redemption. It’s the perfect read for fans of Murder in an Irish Village by Carlene O’Connor and The Irish Inheritance by M.J Lee. After the Rising Twenty years ago, Jo...

Crimson Child: Death's Gift, Book 4 A Gothic Vampire Historical Romance Mary Wingfield feels more trapped than when her father had put her under house arrest. She does not want to marry General Hodd, but he is not exactly a bad prospect. On the other hand, the man she does want to marry,...

The Roxton Family Saga is unsurpassed Georgian romance —Cheryl Bolen, NY Times bestselling author Roxton Family Saga Book 3: Dair and Rory’s Happily Ever After 1770s London and Hampshire. Alisdair ‘Dair’ Fitzstuart, hero of the American Revolutionary war and heir to an earldom,...

A Full House is a historical novel of farm life in Alberta, Canada, in the 1930s, 1940s and ’50’s. The book follows the historical novels: Book #1 The Gentle Gamblers, and book #2 The Tender Years. The MacIntosh Family moves into their homestead in the northern bushland after trials in a series...

A sparkling, witty and compelling novel based on the tragic rise and fall of the beautiful seventeenth century swordswoman and opera singer, Julie d'Aubigny (also known as La Maupin), a woman whose story is too remarkable to be true - and yet it is. Versailles, 1686: Julie d'Aubigny, a striking...